More than 50 years ago, a smokejumper carried tree seeds to space and back. Some were planted in Missoula. The rest of the story is about how we forgot.
First published in 1941 and recently revived, Norman Macleod’s semi-autobiographical novel “The Bitter Roots” excavates Missoula’s buried past, including its young men trying to prove themselves amid war, class struggle, and cruelty.
How Missoula provoked a punk kid who became one of indie music’s most polarizing provocateurs—and one of the alternative recording industry’s most revered and principled figures, too.
